Tag: robert stanley

Divided on Death x 5

1939 Holt hardcover

Oil on board, 13 x 8-1/2 inches (33.0 x 21.6 cm) (sight) – Not signed

The present work is published on the cover of Dividend on Death by Brett Halliday (Dell, 1952).

first published novel under the name Brett Halliday, first Michael (or Mike) Shayne novel

cover art by Robert McGinnis

1959 Dell reissue

better image than previously posted

The Uncomplaining Corpses x 4

1944 Detective Novel Classic digest

cover art by Robert Stanley

Oil on board, 12.625 x 8.75 in. (sight), not signed

Dell #386, 1950.

better image than previously posted

1958 Dell reissue

cover art by Paul Rader

better image than previously posted

1963 Dell reissue

cover art by Robert McGinnis

better image than previously posted

[post updated 10/12/25]

cover art by Robert Stanley

Robert Stanley The Whipping Room Paperback Cover Painting Original Art (Designs Publishing Corp., 1952). An evocative image of a disheveled woman facing the fear of a whip that has been presented as the cover for three different publications: The Whipping Room (1952) by Florenz Branch, which was originally painted to show the whip held in a male hand; The Thing That Made Love (Uni, 1954) by David V. Reed, which used the image of the woman with a different background; and Warped Women (Beacon, 1956) by Janet Pritchard, featuring the painting as it exists now, reworked to make the male hand holding the whip female. Acrylic on 13″ x 17″ illustration board.

cover art by Robert Stanley

oil on board, 16×12.25″

Kate by Chet Kinsey (Beacon books edition, #B225, 1959)

artwork repurposed for Student Nurses by Gail Jordan [aka Peggy Gaddis] (Uni books #37 1952)

The dates given for these works makes no sense. If the original cover was for a 1959 paperback (which seems likely as the artwork matches), then how could the second book be from 1952? The only way that works is if the “original artwork” is the retouched work from the 1952 book…

October – December 1950 issue ~ cover art by Robert Stanley

October – December 1950

cover art by Robert Stanley

first and only issue, all stories reissued from past fiction magazines